Tales from Watership Down

I simply did not like this book. Some of the short stories were mildly interesting, some others were vacuous. Some of them seemed more like an adaptation of human moral stories to a rabbit society meant to educate children on the concepts of right and wrong, as opposed to being stories about ways of understanding the universe in which rabbits might possibly believe and tell if they had that ability.

  I have read the opinion of some people who say that this book tries to correct the lack of female characters doing interesting things in Watership Down. Fair enough, Hyzenthlay is made co-Chief Rabbit of Watership Down, but that was briefly mentioned once in a short story and is not an important aspect of the book. Yes, Flyairth is an adventurous doe that has the courage to leave Watership Down and form her own warren. Still, female rabbits are offered as prizes to male rabbits who perform heoric acts, and female rabbits are usually the first, and often only, casualty. Not cool.